The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-12-11
EDUCATIONAL ITEMS.

Colorado shows the highest average
paid to women teachers.
The New Jersey Teachers Reading
Circle has membership of 1866.
| In West Virginia the average of mer
and women teachers wages is the same
Hidemaro Namboo OF Japan. who
| graduated from Princeton in 1878, Is
court astronomer at Toxic.
A demand is urged for cslisthenic
song book, or for even calistheniC
song that shall be new and fresh.
The winter meeting Of the National
Education Association will be held III
Washington, February Ii Is, 1888.
Harvard college is at a high tide of
fortune, having received no less than
S3,OUV,000 IN CUTS during the last five
months.
The great telescope of Dearborn uni
Verslty, Chicago, has passed into the
possession of the Northwestern uniVer-
sity of illinois.
The fact ia shown that a very large
majority of all cases of myopia. or near
sightedness, have their origin during the
period of school life.
1t is expected that the new fireproof
building of Syracuse university, to con-
tain the Won Ranke library, will be
completed within year.
The election of Miss Alice N Longfel
low to place on the School Board at
Cambridge, Mass, is viewed with much
satisfaction in that section.
The first college president in this
country OF Scandinavian origin is-Ed-
ward Olson. recently elected to the pre-
sidency of the University of Dakota.
A school for the teaching of VoIapuk
is to be opened by the Bavarian Minis
ter OF Worship at the Luitpold gym
nasium in Munich.
It is in Boston that fifty lady teachers
unite in securing an instructor and iec-
turer, devoting their spare hours to hard
study of psychology.
1t was on account of his rigorous
treatment of students in the gymna-
SUM that NJ. Delianoff, the Russian
Minister of Public Instruction, was dis
missed.
Of the thirty-eight students matrieu-
lated on ALI Saints Day at the General
Episcopal Seminary, two are of the
colored race. one being son of Bishop
Holly of Hayti.
The building for the Ramona Indian
Girls school at santa Fe, n. M, COM
memorating Helen Hunt Jackson, will
cost $50, 600, being arranged to accom-
modate $50 pupils.
Efforts are made by the Russian gov
ernment to suppress the Socialistlc and
Nihilistic literature extensively cir
culated among the students of the poly
technlc schools and private lyceums.
The cross of an officer of the Legion OF
Honor has been conferred by the French
government on c. b. f. Peters, OF
Hamilton College, in recognition of his
achievements in astronomical science.
The University of Pennsylvania has
received the handsome gift of the law
library of Benjamin Harris Brewster,
consisting of upward of 5000 volumes
and being ranked as one of the finest in
the country.
Restaurants are now connected with
many of the high schools throughout
the country, one of the most successful
IN providing warm luncheons for pupils
being that of the Industrial High School
of Philadelphia.
A graduate course in pedagogic5 is
conducted IN the University of the City
of New York, under the direction of DR..
Jerome Allen, the class of teachers,
principals and others, wishing to study
the history and science of education
meeting once week.
A handsome building is being erected
at Rock Point, near Burlington, VT, for
an Episcopal diocesan school for young
ladies', for which bequest of 5000
from the late John &. Howard of Bur
lington was gwen on condition Of al ad-
dltionaI equal amount being raised.